Belt.



Patented Aug. 6, |901. S. J. PROKESCH.

BELT.

(Application led Oct. 20. 1900.)

`(No Model.)

vA rrofrNE ys UNITED 2 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J. PROKESCH, OF4 NENV YORK, N. Y.

BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,071,dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed October Z0, 1900l Serial No. 33,719. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, SAMUEL J. PRoKEsoH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt, yof which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved belt arranged to readily yield lengthwise and accommodate itself to the motions of the wearers body, so as to iit at all times snugly to the Waist of the wearer without requiring any adjustment by lengthening or shortening the belt, as now commonly practiced.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

forminga part of this specification, in which other modied form of the improvement.

The improved belt illustrated in the drawings consists of the main or body sections A A' A2, of which the sections A A' are at the front of the belt and are adapted to be'connected with each other by a suitable fasten-v ing device, such as shown in the drawings,

and consisting of a socket B, fixed to the section A, and a button B', fixed to the section A. The sections A A2 have their ends overlapping, and in a similar manner the ends of the sections A A2 overlap, each end of the section A2 being on the outside of the end A4 of the section A or A. The ends of the section A2 carry guides C C', through which extends loosely the end A4 of the corresponding 5o section A or A', and to this guide C at the inside of the Ysection A is secured one end of a flexible connection D, preferably in the form of a webbing, as indicated in the drawings. The other end of the flexible connection is attached to the under side of the section A, toward the front end thereof. A similar liexible connection D is secured to the end A4 and extends in an opposite direction to the exible connection D, to be secured to the connection A2 at the under side thereof, as will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 2 and 3. vIt is understood that similar flexible connections D D connect the sections A A2 with each other,'so that considerable flexibility is given to the belt to allow a ready yielding in a lengthwise direction of the several sections when a strain is exerted on the belt. Thus by the arrangement described the ends of adjacent sections overlap each other, one end being guided in a guide carried by the adjacent section, the ends of the sections being attached to flexible connections, of which the flexible connection of one section is attached to the other section.

When a strain is exerted on the belt and one section is guided by the other, and consequently a dislocation of the sections is completely prevented, so that the belt always re tains a nice appearance. As the two iiexible 75 .the sections move in opposite directions, then connections are connected with adjacent sections, it is evident that any strain on the belt is on both liexible connections, so that the same yield and allow movement of the sections in opposite directions. When the strain isreleased, the flexible connections again draw the sections toward each other, the sections being properly guided one upon the other, owing to the guide C or C. The guides may be constructed in various manners. `For instance, as shown in Fig. 5, the guide C2, attached to the end of the section A7, is in the shape of a single loop and is free to pass the end of the adjacent section A6, so that the ends of the sections A6 and A7 overlap., f

As illustrated in'Fig. 6, the section A8 is formed with an integral guide A9 for the passage of the end of the adjacent section, it being understood that both guides C2 and A9 also carry one end of the corresponding flexible connection D to be secured to the other adjacent section.

Vhen the belt is in use, the doubledportion D2 of the elastic D at the joint of the end A4 abuts against the doubled-up portion A5, hold ing the guide C to the section A2 when the sections are drawn far apart to limit the stretching of the elastics and prevent undue straining and breaking of the elastics.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A e 1. A belt provided with aguide through which a member of the belt .loosely passes, and anyelastic connection between the guide and the member of the belt passing through the said guide, substantially as described.

2. A belt, comprisingaplnralityof sections, one Of the sections being provided with a guide throughwhich another section of the belt loosely passes, an elastic connection between the guide and the section passing loosely through the guide and an elastic connection between the end of the section passing through the guide and the section carrying said guide, substantially as described.

v tion attached at one end to the sliding bodyvsection. and secured at its other end to the body-section carrying the guide, as set forth.

4. A belt, consisting of three sections, two of which are detachably secured together, a guide carried by each end of the third section and through which lthe ends of the two rsty namedzsections lloosely pass,va iiexible connection secured to each of the said ends and to the section'fcarrying the guide, and a flexible connection secured to each guide and to v the sections that are detachably connected,

substantially as described.

SAMUEL J. PROKi'JsOI-I.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. HOSTER, l 1 EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. 

